how to make jmeter output graphs

Question

I am not a jmeter expert, but I understand it can display graphs and save the data in .xml files.

Is there a way to have jmeter actually create JPG, GIF or PNG files (or whatever format that can be embedded in html?)

Added later: I need a solution that works in a batch run

Answer 1

A simple way would be to right click on a Graph Result to "Save Node as Image".

Answer 2

I would suggest saving as a CSV file, then using a graphing engine separately to generate graphs. If you want to create them dynamically you could use some open-source graphing tools and a workflow engine.

If you're happy with doing it by hand, Excel?

Answer 3

there is a list of ways to analyze logs on the wiki - http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-jmeter/LogAnalysis

I use jmetergraph.pl for nice summary reports. Note that there is a bug with the default jmetergraph.pl, you need to add this to line 313, at the end of the while loop:

    close(IN);
}

$glabels{'entire'} = \%entire;    # this line added.
print "Found $#labels labels\n" if $DEBUG;

Otherwise you can use the jmeterlog class to create your own images by writing custom code for it.....